Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 2 March 2021 to Question 158199, how many of the 97.9 full time equivalent staff recruited on fixed term or temporary appointment to work on EU exit preparation work will leave his Department in each month of 2021-22.

The breakdown of the 97.99 full-time equivalent recruited on fixed term or temporary appointments and working on EU exit preparation work leaving the department in 2021/22 is shown below.

This is based on “planned termination dates” as at 31 January 2021. Contracts can be extended, or appointments converted to permanent contracts (subject to the appropriate recruitment processes).